David James Duncan, born in Portland, Oregon, in 1952, is a writer
whose works include My Story as Told by Water,
The Brothers K, The River
Why, and River Teeth. His work deals with
environmental issues, spiritual problems and fly-fishing. My Story as Told by Water, which was nominated for a
National Book Award, expresses his concern about the possible extinction of the
Pacific Northwest’s wild salmon. The River Why and
The Brothers K received the Pacific Northwest
Booksellers award. The Brothers K was also named a
New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the
American Library Association. Duncan currently lives in Montana.

A list of his publications includes:

Duncan, David James. The Brothers K.
New York: Bantam, 1993.Duncan, David James. River Teeth: Stories
and Writings. New York: Doubleday, 1995.Duncan, David James. The River Why.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books; [Berkeley]: Distributed by University of
California Press, 2002.Duncan, David James. My Story as Told by
Water. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2001.
Scope and Contents

The collection includes business and fan correspondence, manuscripts
to published books and articles, reviews, some artifacts, miscellaneous
publications, and lecture notes concerning David James Duncan’s writing career.
Correspondents include Barry Lopez, Pattiann Rogers, Bill McKibben, William
Kittredge, Sherman Alexie and Robert Michael Pyle.

The collection is in good condition and is part of the James Sowell
Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World.

Organization

The collection is organized by types of materials such as
correspondence, literary production, and printed materials.

Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.

Subjects (Persons)
Duncan, David
JamesDuncan, David James-
--ArchivesDuncan, David James-
--CorrespondenceDuncan, David James-
--ManuscriptsDuncan, David James- --My
Story as Told By WaterDuncan, David James-
--The Brothers KDuncan, David James-
--The River WhyDuncan, David James-
--River Teeth
Subjects
Natural history--Northwest,
PacificFly fishingNovelists,
AmericanSalmon--Effects of dams
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Collection accession #(s):
2003-0009-X

Purchase, 2002

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research. Copyright is retained by the authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by U.S. copyright law.

Copy requests in excess of 5 pages must be approved by the donor or his representative.